Word: transcendentalist
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...women represented, perhaps because women were not in a position to make the kind of political history Fried is concerned with. (Each is written in a genre particular to the times and events it describes.) Samuels Book of Confessions is complemented by the journals of Basil Litchflied Prescott, transcendentalist; on the other hand, Bartholomew Flagg Prescott's contribution comprises a series of dispatches, ostensibly briefing Lincoln on the calibre of his various generals, while Stewart Rantoul os represented by muckraking articles and his correspondence with Teddy Roosevelt...
HOLY HORATIO--The nineteenth century Harvard author who sold more copies of his works than Thoreau, Emerson, Parkman, Lowell, and Henry James combined was not a Transcendentalist. He was a Unitarian named "Holy" Horatio Alger Jr., so called because of his announced intention to follow his father's footsteps in the ministry. His 119 "rags-to-riches" novels--all with nearly the same plot--sold around 250,000,000 copies. No Harvard author to date has sold that many books...
...would only do this to people who find the solidity of the earth (or the floor of MOMA) rather odd and need to be reminded of it by sculptures. The denial of the material in Caro's work, quite as much as its formal precision, appeals to the transcendentalist mind: to a criticism based on the flatness of painting and the open pictoriality of sculpture, on work that "overcomes" its own material essence...
Still, as a descendant of a prominent Massachusetts family that included Emerson's fellow transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, Bucky in 1913 became a fifth-generation Harvard man. Within two years he had been thrown out twice -the second and final time for running off to New York to blow his semester's living expenses on dinner for the entire Ziegfeld chorus line...
...both in accomplishments and awakening feminist consciousness. They are often activists rather than artists; they perceive the imitations of their lives as women and struggle to break their own chains and their sisters'. Unlike their adventure-seeking predecessors, these women want to reform, even revolutionize the status quo--the Transcendentalist critic Margaret Fuller who combined Transcendental spirituality and practical agitation in her notorious Conversations and in Woman in the Nineteenth Century; the ex-slave Sojourner Truth who infused abolition and agitation for women's rights with her own "strange powers"; the anarchist Emma Goldman who pioneered the advocacy of birth...